Conference USA updates 2013 football television schedule

IRVING — Conference USA (C-USA) announced updates to its 2013 football television schedule on Wednesday and a total of 10 UTSA games now will be broadcast this fall.

The Roadrunners' home opener against Oklahoma State, scheduled for 11 a.m. on Sept. 7, will be shown on FOX Sports 1. The 24-hour national sports network is scheduled to launch on Aug. 17.

Meanwhile, UTSA's C-USA opener at UTEP, slated for 7 p.m. (CT) on Sept. 21, will be televised on FOX College Sports. Click here to find out the channel number in your area.

The league announced last month that the Sept. 28 home tilt with Houston will be shown on FOX Sports, but the network and kickoff time still have yet to be determined.

Four other contests will air on Time Warner Cable's (TWC) SportsChannel Texas network and the kickoff times for all of those games have been set.

UTSA's Oct. 12 home tilt against Rice will begin at 3 p.m., while the Oct. 26 contest with UAB is scheduled for 4 p.m. at the Alamodome. Meanwhile, the Roadrunners' Oct. 5 road outing at Marshall will kick off at 1 p.m. (CT) and the Nov. 23 game at North Texas is slated for 2:30 p.m.

The Tulsa (Nov. 2) and Louisiana Tech (Nov. 30) contests, which were included in last month's original television announcement, will be shown on Comcast Sports Southeast and start times will be announced at a later date. Click here to find out the channel number in your area.

UTSA's other televised game this fall will be the Sept. 14 road tilt at Arizona, which will be shown on the Pac-12 Networks (kickoff time TBA).

The Roadrunners, who posted an 8-4 overall record and 3-3 mark in their first and only season as a member of the Western Athletic Conference, are scheduled to open the program's third season of play on Aug. 31 at New Mexico. It is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. (CT).